My first journey into home servers. I wanted to make this post as an introduction of sorts, and maybe I'll make a series out of it later. Here is how I got started, so you can learn too!

$124,777 - You won't be able to resist this unique and simply amazing Spanish-style home in the small-town of Seymour, Iowa. Bursting with character and architectural appeal, this beautifully…

The Living Reading Room Gazette Hexagram / Matter vs. Spirit 2026 55gsm Newsprint, folded and unbound 8 pages 350mm x 500mm Digital Black printed by Newspaper Club Edition of 200 This publication was…

(pretty awesome) image from Gematsu On we go to the works of Toaplan! Like Emerson Lake and Palmer, Toaplan was a video game “supergroup” comprised of the best designers from Crux and Orca. Okay,…

I was enjoying Benn Stancil’s latest column1 on generalized vs specialized models (his typical, punchy, link-ridden screed) until this paragraph jump scared me: And that’s the turn nobody…

Round 3 Results Die Roll: 2 Cards: 5 Clubs 9 Spades Prompts: Intriguing, Coffee in an open air Cafe I was not sure what to do with this one at first, in my mind Jon is not the type of person to…

Shane MacDonald at The Catholic University of America’s Archivist’s Nook has a post called Title-Pages Through Time – A History of One Page: When opening a book, typically the first page one…

For years, visiting the redwoods of Northern California sat near the top of my travel bucket list. I’d seen photos of these towering giants... The post Wheelchair Accessible Redwoods: Your Guide to…

In the most recent update of Windows 11, Microsoft added a new design of the windows 11 start menu that includes a the pane “Access your mobile devices here”, also called “Phone Link In Start Menu”.…

This is a near-perfect policy experiment showing us, once again, that immigration is not only a net gain for all, but an absolute gain in the rural communities that have become the most politically…

If you want to run a marathon (I don’t), you need to cover 26.2 miles. That’s hard work and there’s no way around it. But you can hire a coach, join a running group, hydrate well,…

Bunny Yeager was a model-turned-photographer who made Bettie Page famous, broke into a male-dominated industry, and redefined what pin-up photography could be.

Walk through any policy debate these days and you’ll trip over the same two words, tossed around like a trump card: market failure. Drug prices too high? Market failure. Can’t find an affordable…

There is a lot of chatter about online age verification. When the criticism turns to the EU's approach, it tends to be either uninformed or deliberately misleading.

UFO 50 #6: Mortol (Perry, 2024)For subscribers only, I’m working my way through UFO 50, in “chronological” order, posting one article a month until they’re all done If you’re interested in reading,…

Resurrecting the long poem through grit and exercise

A developer I was chatting with recently raised a question I’ve been hearing more and more: Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much? Assuming the code…

Saturday 9th May 2026 Blackpool Winter Gardens minus the drunk punks slumped in the streets with their 2 litre bottles of cider always looks a bit naked to me, but it felt a necessary pilgrimage and…

Robots have gotten good at stringing words together. So what?

A new thought post about a meetup with a neocities lover!!!

A little post about a mantra that has been making me a better person, and I hope will keep doing so.

Finn offers me poppers at his birthday party, I take them, holding one nostril down and pressing the bottle against the other. I inhale, and my body becomes loose, my veins relax, expand, even. A…

Day 2 of the hackathon. I used the Grafana gcx debug-with-grafana skill with Claude to find the root cause of failing and slow services from metrics, logs and traces, and monitoring Claude’s…

Google offers a really strong startups program, which includes >$100k GCP credits and a handful of other goodies like 12 months free of Workspace Business Plus (normally $22/user/month). While not a…

I thank the American institute of physics for organising their monthly Physics of plasma webinar series and for giving me. a chance to interact with some of the leading researchers in plasma science.…

I recently attended a church conference, and during a roundtable discussion titled "A Christian's Guide to Authenticity in an Artificial Intelligence World," I made the following observation: Let me…

This post compares how Clang, MSVC, and GCC optimise a small integer division routine.

In Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious , Jim wrote: I often look at my own posts and think, “There’s nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?” How can I…

Week 26 of 2026: heatLast week was very hot and ended in a thunderstorm that flooded our bike parking and the rest of the ground floor of our building. But cancelled plans lead to other plans and…

As I wrote many times, I use pdf-tools as main pdf viewer. I thought that one thing that would be nice is being able to open pdfs in it from outside Emacs. For example, texdoc could use it instead of…

That's prompting your VC. You're not asking me to take your word for anything. You're telling me exactly who to call and exactly what they're going to say. When I make that call and the answer comes…

The Ephemeris is the part of Orbit I was most nervous about, because it's the part that has to be correct. Telemetry can drop a sample and shrug. The ledger cannot drop a placement, can't…

A busy week meant no episodes. But now I’m home again. Transcript

Armonía (Harmony) by Remedios Varo (1956)A peer-reviewed paper I co-authored with collaborators at the University of Michigan is published in the current edition of the Journal of Statistics and…

GPU Lab Launched We’ve just launched our GPU lab, which allows you to practice GPU programming like CUDA in your browser. GPU Programming requires both an expensive GPU, and one compatible with…

If you need some context, I would recommend reading the previous Goblin Status . So I have put texture paste on all of the models, which makes them ready to be primed. I went to this LGS that is…

Exactly what I thought would happen, RISC OS WiFi, Random rant about version numbers, I was not so great last night, A political rant.

This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US! only 35mm projecting drive-in left!), the Simulwatch crew and I stopped off at Timeline Arcade in…

Shooting a parade is hard. That is why I try to shoot around it, not the parade itself.

social.lol Mastodon server upgrade It’s time for an upgrade! The server that powers our social.lol Mastodon instance is approaching its capacity, so we’re going to do the little…

The plan this morning was to give a Biology lesson to Year 12 students at Rednock School on Riverfly. We did the...

The all-you-can-eat AI coding era is over. So what do you do on the 22nd of the month, when the token budget's gone and there's over a week of work left? Here's a local coding agent (Pi…

20cm x 15cm (8"x6"), oil on board...

I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my…

ISPs in Ghana are reporting their 2Africa waves are up and running. So 2Africa's main trunk appears untouched. Hence the Cote d'Ivoire outage must be due to a branching segment fault. It is thought a…

This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived but sadly now defunct bookstore Bookman's Corner on Broadway and…

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The death tolls associated with twentieth-century communist and Marxist-Leninist regimes are a subject of ongoing historical research because total numbers include a mix of direct political…

An autonomous AI software company mastered the process of software development but not the judgment required to evolve a real product. What happened when an autonomous software company inherited a…

Socialism is inherently unstable as it ignores what motivated humans. Once one person slacks off, everyone else sees it and does the same. Socialism has zero motivation to work. Then the leaders have…